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Phaseolus vulgaris: angry and tired
A 26 year old woman suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome for the last five years. When it is really bad she lies on her bed for four days of the week. Everything is too much for her; she does not have any energy at all. She also suffers from asthmatic bronchitis and has shortness of breath on going up the stairs, with pain in her chest in the sternum region; breathing difficulties are worse in foggy weather, changing to wet weather, warm humid weather, the first day of the menses, and in the morning between 8 and 10 am. It is better when she bends her shoulders backwards.
She has allergic reactions to some cosmetics, cleaning chemicals, paint fumes, spices, elm, beech, and beans. The allergies are worse in February and March, with irritation and redness of the eyes. She has a feeling of sand in her eyes, red upper eyelids, pain in the eyes, and an outward pressing pain at the root of the nose. During these episodes, she can become very restless, has the tendency to destroy things, and has overstretched her fingers. It started five years ago, when she began to work in a clothing shop.
The first day of the menses, she also has dizziness, a foggy vision, and she can not see depth. She is awkward and falls easily, especially on going up the stairs. She also drops things and walks into furniture. She has the feeling that she is floating, that her head is in a sack. The optometrist cannot find anything and spectacles do not influence it. The neurologist did a lumbar puncture and eye test but could not find any objective defect.
The allergy to paint solvents also affects her skin, which becomes red and itchy, especially the back of her hands, the front of her knees, the outside of her elbows, and in front of her ears. The skin on the back of her hands can become very thick, as if there is a layer on it.
She has recurrent 'influenza' lasting a week, eight or nine times a year. Her throat is painful, red, and itching; she feels ill, weak, fatigued, and has a low grade fever of 38°C.
Family history
Father has hay fever, her sister has also an allergy for paint fumes, and her
mother has multiple sclerosis. The mother's multiple sclerosis started when she
was about two years old; when she reached thirteen her mother needed a
Past history
As a child she had somnambulism, which she liked. At age fifteen, she suffered
from hyperventilation with feelings of shortness of breath and fatigue, but no
fear or panic. The first attack happened in her classroom during a lesson on
mathematics. She just fell down from her chair. It felt very unreal: "I wasn't
there anymore, it just fell on me." Everyone said that they had expected
something like that to happen because of the problems in her family, with the
mother having multiple sclerosis. At the time, she also had a boyfriend whose
mother had multiple sclerosis. It was not very pleasant at home. She was very
obstinate and grumpy, which led her to seek psychotherapy. She left home to
live with an aunt for half a year and later with an older sister. Her mother
was quite demanding because of her disease and she felt that her mother was
asking something of her that she could not offer. She felt powerless, thinking:
"I'm not a physiotherapist, doctor or
magician." She thinks that her problems have nothing to do with her mother's multiple
sclerosis. That suggestion makes her angry: "Everybody is responsible for
In general, she can be quite angry and she expresses her discontent easily. Even little things can provoke a rage; "She could kick a cat to death that runs in front of her feet." Having to do things, especially under time pressure, makes her very angry, with a red face, feeling the rage ascending from her hands, chest, and throat to her head. She is also angry with people who do not keep their appointments. She feels like a real scorpion, astrologically speaking. She likes to help people, to work together. She likes her profession of teaching English and likes working with children.
Generals: Weather: icy-cold hands and feet, worse from wet weather and change to wet weather
Time: Worse 8 to 10 am, better autumn
Desires: Meat, cheese, vegetables, fruit, melon, mango
Aversion: Peas (3) and beans (3), sour, sweet
Menses: Irregular, every three to six weeks; no problems with it
Sleep: Good, on abdomen
Dreams: Active and funny ones; jumping from a mountain with a parachute or acting in a movie. As a child she had dreams of going to the woods with her family and then a witch came to eat them.
This patient came to see me in 1993 and I could not see a clear remedy. Because
of the strong aversion to peas and beans, I prescribed the bean, Phaseolus 1M.
At that time, I did not have any further confirmation for this prescription.
The rationality of the prescription is found in the reverse of the law of
similarity: "In an unknown picture, prescribe an unknown remedy." Later, I
found that many of the patient's symptoms were symptoms of the Leguminosae family (Fabaceae), as you can read below.
After six weeks: when she came back, she told me that in general things were
worse. She had been feverish for a few weeks, had a dry cough, muscle pain in
her thigh, and some eczema on the side of her nose. The dizziness, however, was
almost gone and she did not overstretched her fingers anymore. She felt
quieter, not so hurried, and had more energy. Although her energy level had
been up and down before, she felt that it was quite remarkable now when her
energy was low for a few days. I repeated Phaseolus vulgaris 1MK and gradually
she became better and better.
The remedy was repeated seven times during the first year. After half a year, her allergies were mostly gone and she had some muscle pain temporarily. Later that year, she had eczema, first under her eyes, later at the corners of her mouth and on her shoulders. The eczema was worse from sun, between 8-10 am, and worse from heat. Again, she had the same kind of modalities as before. Over the next five years, the remedy was repeated another seven times when small problems, such as fatigue came back. After that she had no more fatigue than a 'normal' person and she is still doing very well.
Article first published in Homeopathic Links volume 12 (5) 1999.
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Some spilled milk is worth crying over. This weird little ad from Hood Simply Smart starts out normal enough and ends in tears.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's national security adviser is calling on Russia to re-evaluate its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, leaving open the possibility of additional U.S. military action against Syria.
In his first televised interview, H.R. McMaster pointed to dual U.S. goals of defeating the Islamic State group and removing Assad from power. As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was making the Trump administration's first official trip this week to Russia, McMaster said Russia will have to decide whether it wanted to continue backing a "murderous regime." Trump is weighing next steps after ordering airstrikes last week.
"It's very difficult to understand how a political solution could result from the continuation of the Assad regime," McMaster said on "Fox News Sunday."
"Now, we are not saying that we are the ones who are going to effect that change. What we are saying is, other countries have to ask themselves some hard questions. Russia should ask themselves ... Why are we supporting this murderous regime that is committing mass murder of its own population?"
He said Russia should also be asked how it didn't know that Syria was planning a chemical attack since it had advisers at the Syrian airfield.
"Right now, I think everyone in the world sees Russia as part of the problem," McMaster said.
After last Tuesday's chemical attack in Syria, Trump said his attitude toward Assad "has changed very much" and Tillerson said "steps are underway" to organize a coalition to remove him from power.
But as lawmakers called on Trump to consult with Congress, Trump administration officials sent mixed signals on the scope of future U.S. involvement. While Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, described regime change in Syria as a U.S. priority and inevitable, Tillerson suggested that last week's American airstrikes in retaliation for the chemical attack hadn't really changed U.S. priorities toward ousting Assad.
Pressed to clarify, McMaster said the goals of fighting IS and ousting Syria's president were somewhat "simultaneous" and that the objective of the missile strike was to send a "strong political message to Assad" to stop using chemical weapons. He did not rule out additional strikes if Assad continued to engage in atrocities against rebel forces with either chemical or conventional weapons.
"We are prepared to do more," he said. "The president will make whatever decision he thinks is in the best interest of the American people."
Reluctant to put significant troops on the ground in Syria, the U.S. for years has struggled to prevent Assad from strengthening his hold on power.
U.S.-backed rebels groups have long pleaded for more U.S. intervention and complained that Washington has only fought the Islamic State group. So Trump's decision to launch the strikes — an action President Barack Obama declined to take after a 2013 chemical attack — has raised optimism among rebels that Trump will more directly confront Assad.
Several lawmakers said Sunday that decision shouldn't entirely be up to Trump.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, praised Trump's initial missile strike for sending a message to Assad, Russia, Iran and North Korea that "there's a new administration in charge." But he said Trump now needed to work with Congress to set a future course.
"Congress needs to work with the president to try and deal with this long-term strategy, lack of strategy, really, in Syria," he said. "We haven't had one for six years during the Obama administration, and 400,000 civilians have died and millions of people have been displaced internally and externally in Europe and elsewhere."
Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, agreed. "What we saw was a reaction to the use of chemical weapons, something I think many of us supported," he said. "But what we did not see is a coherent policy on how we're going to deal with the civil war and also deal with ISIS."
Still, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he believed that Trump didn't need to consult with Congress.
"I think the president has authorization to use force," he said. "Assad signed the chemical weapons treaty ban. There's an agreement with him not to use chemical weapons."
Their comments came as Tillerson planned to meet with Russian officials. Russia had its own military personnel at the Syrian military airport that the U.S. struck with cruise missiles. But in interviews broadcast Sunday, Tillerson said he sees no reason for retaliation from Moscow because Russia wasn't targeted.
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Topic: Iraq War
Some may be familiar with th valiant record of The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice AKA mutaween in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.
In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.
About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred.
According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam.One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya
But it would appear that even they are being lax in the area of Shari'a if they allow tomatoes to be subjected to the uncontrollable lust of cucumbers!
Al Qaeda in Iraq: "No TOMATOES AND CUCUMBERS Together!"
Learning from al qaeda - a hot tomato and a well endowed cucumber? hat tip other cheek.
American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.
Such radicalism has fueled sectarian violence in Iraq and redrawn the demographics of many mixed Sunni-Shiite towns in Diyala, where tens of thousands of Shiites have been forced to flee large population centers.
You know the may be a commercail opportunity here? I am not certain if anyone is marketing Burkhas for Tomatoes.
But there is good news on the Vegable Liberation Front the report of the above crack down on immoral vegetables came from Baquba, and reports from that area are that the Surge is being successful
HH: I'm joined now by satellite phone from Baghdad by intrepid reporter Michael Yon. He's actually in Baquba. Michael, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show, always a pleasure to speak with you. How goes the fighting on the ground?
MY: Well, it's really slowed down here in Baquba, Hugh. I was just in the TOC or the headquarters about fifteen minutes ago before I came on the show, and they were like the Maytag repairmen here. I mean, Baquba has just…you know, it was a very serious fight when it started, Operation Arrowhead Ripper on the 19th of June, I came in with them, but it quickly abated. The people have just turned against al Qaeda here. And so Baquba is really, the big fight now is to get the food distribution working again, which it already is. You know, they've got that going. And now, they're working on fuel, because the fuel relates to electricity and water pumping. So really, they're working on more civic things now. There's still some combat to do, but not a lot, actually, because like I said, you know, the people just turned against al Qaeda.
HH: Now Michael Yon, a lot of people don't know the significance of Baquba. And so can you explain what peace in Baquba means for the larger war effort?
MY: Well, it's huge, because al Qaeda had claimed Baquba as their capitol, their worldwide capitol. And you might recall one of the things that kind of upsets people about my reporting is I said Iraq was in a civil war, and I said that way back in February of 2005, and I continue to do so. But when I first wrote that, I was in Baquba, in 2005, and I spent two or three months here. And it was just total…you could see it, and you could see al Qaeda was trying to foment that civil war, because that's their underlying strategy, is to do that. And so getting, fracturing al Qaeda here, and al Qaeda alienating so many Iraqis, it's helping us to put a damper on the civil war.
So that part of the world is now safe for contact between consenting vegetables.
Those that are mature of course, contact between seeds of course would be, well such perversion does not bear thought.
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One of Ireland's most interesting visitor destinations, the Cill Rialaig Arts Centre is the public face of the Cill Rialaig Project which saw the restoration of a remote pre-famine village in the 1990s, to be used as an artists' retreat.
Founder Noelle Campbell-Sharp is still closely involved with the project and very likely to be at the centre when you call by, keeping an eye on things and dreaming up new projects - an inspired recent example is her novel ART250 concept where donated artworks - some by famous artists - all sell (unidentified) at a flat rate of €250. Needless to say it has been a huge success, both for the art-buying public - many of whom are getting a bargain that could inspire a lifetime of collecting - and as a fundraiser for the Cill Rialaig Foundation.
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The SEC is devoting significant resources to identifying and holding accountable those who committed fraud in the subprime industry. Previous mortgage-related SEC enforcement actions include securities fraud charges against Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo, and senior executives, including the CEO, of American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation.
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► Former CFO Patti M. Dodge of Irvine, Calif.
► Former Controller David N. Kenneally of Rossmoor, Calif.
In its complaint, the SEC alleges that New Century disclosures generally sought to assure investors that its business was not at risk and was performing better than its peers. Defendants, however, failed to disclose important negative information, including dramatic increases in early loan defaults, loan repurchases, and pending loan repurchase requests. Defendants knew this negative information from numerous internal reports they regularly received, including weekly reports that Morrice ominously entitled "Storm Watch."
The complaint also alleges that Dodge and Kenneally fraudulently accounted for expenses related to bad loans that it had to repurchase. In the face of dramatically increasing loan repurchases and a huge, undisclosed backlog of repurchase demands, Kenneally, with Dodge's knowledge, made changes to New Century's accounting for loan repurchases in both the second and third quarters of 2006. These undisclosed accounting changes violated generally accepted accounting principles and resulted in New Century's improperly avoiding substantial repurchase expenses and materially overstating its financial results.
The complaint further alleges that the defendants' fraud caused investors substantial losses. From early 2006 to early 2007, New Century's stock price ranged from $30 to $50; and in the second half of 2006, the company raised $142.5 million by selling stock to new investors. After New Century announced in February 2007 that it would have restate its 2006 financial statements, New Century's stock price fell 36 percent to around $19. New Century's stock price continued to fall, and traded at less than $1 when the company filed for bankruptcy in April 2007.
The complaint, filed in federal court in the Central District of California, seeks a final judgment permanently enjoining defendants from future violations of the federal securities laws, disgorgement with prejudgment interest, officer and director bars, and civil penalties. The SEC also seeks from Morrice and Dodge reimbursement of bonuses and incentive or equity-based compensation pursuant to Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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- A Canadian study found that listening to music at levels of 95+dB SPL can reduce your mental and physical reaction times by up to 20%. This supposedly only applies to operating heavy machinery (like a car), but you can probably expect your car insurance to go up if the insurance company discovers that your hobby is "car audio."
- When the SPL level in a bar goes to 88dB, patrons drink at least one more beer during their stay, according to a French study. This explains why the juke boxes and background music is always so loud.
- The human heart automatically tries to synchronize its beat with the tempo of a song, according to several studies. OK, that explains hit pop songs but what about punk music?
- Music acts like a drug, according to some German research, in that it increases your level of seratonin when you hear music that you like. Seratonin is a neurotransmitter responsible for "good feelings." That's no surprise to most musicians, who already know they're hard-core junkies for the music they love. Of course, listening to unpleasant music has the opposite effect.
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Hundreds of holiday travelers spent the night in the nation's second busiest airport and others faced delayed or canceled flights and highways choked by snow and ice as storms kept up their assault on northern states.
More snow fell Wednesday in the Midwest, where the National Weather Service said up to 4 inches was possible in Chicago. The Northwest faced more snow and sleet early Wednesday, with up to 20 inches in the Cascade range. And more snow and ice spread over the Northeast.
"We're seeing quite a bit of messiness out there," said weather service meteorologist Ed Shimon, who's been at work at the agency's Lincoln, Ill., office for six straight days, a period when the state has seen snow, ice and subzero temperatures. "It's something different every day — never a dull moment."
About 500 travelers had to spend the night at Chicago's O'Hare International, the nation's second busiest airport, after stormy weather canceled more than 500 flights Tuesday, said Chicago Aviation Department spokeswoman Karen Pride.
Only around a dozen flights had been called off at O'Hare early Wednesday, but the Federal Aviation Administration reported delays there and at Newark, N.J.
South of Portland, Ore., crews were shutting down a section of Interstate 205 at Oregon City because a buildup of ice and snowbanks, said Dave Thompson, public affairs manager of Oregon Department of Transportation. The department also was requiring tire chains on all highways in the Portland metro area.
The weather service posted winter storm warnings and advisories for large parts of the West, plus a swath of the Midwest and most of the Northeast.
Many roads across northern and central Indiana were ice-covered Wednesday morning, but State Police reopened a 30-mile stretch of Interstate 69 northeast of Indianapolis after closing it for about four hours due to ice.
The weather service warned of a significant flood threat this weekend in northern Indiana because of heavy rain expected later in the week and rapid snow melt.
Travelers relying on Amtrak train service also ran into weather-related delays caused by snow-packed track switches and cold. Around 600 passengers in Chicago waited for up to 22 hours before finally boarding their delayed trains — the Lake Shore Limited, which was bound for New York, and the Seattle- and Portland, Ore.-bound Empire Builder.
"It's spoiled our Christmas, sure," 73-year-old Don Seifert said after he and his wife abandoned hope of spending the holidays in New York with their son and his family.
However, crowds of stranded travelers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were drastically reduced Tuesday, some Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses in the Pacific Northwest were running and motorists in the region found easier going Tuesday.
Greyhound officials opened service on Interstate 5 from Portland to Seattle and from Seattle to Spokane but not east of there. Portland to Boise service remained suspended.
Amtrak said it was moving passengers from Eugene to Portland by bus, from Portland to Seattle by train, and from Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia, by bus.
At least 13 people died in car crashes on rain and ice-slickened roads Tuesday — two in Missouri, two in Kansas, one in Oklahoma, four in Kentucky, one in Ohio and two in Indiana, and a state lawmaker was killed in West Virginia.


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LAS VEGAS – Just the idea of a big 160-pound fight had promoter Bob Arum reminiscing about the 1980s, when Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns took on all comers and middleweights ruled the boxing world.
Saturday night's fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Sergio Martinez isn't exactly Hagler-Hearns, but it is intriguing enough to get boxing fans excited about the middleweight division again.
Chavez defends the piece of the 160-pound title Martinez believes should still be his when they meet in a fight that seems quite personal to both. There's a good chance the fight could turn into an old-fashioned brawl, the prospect of which was enough to sell out the 19,000-seat UNLV campus arena for the Mexican Independence Day weekend bout.
Chavez Jr. is fighting to escape from the shadow of his father, the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez, and establish himself as one of the new stars of the sport. Martinez is trying to solidify his position as the best middleweight in the world, and dispatch a fighter he doesn't think even deserves to be in a title fight.
At the final pre-fight news conference, they traded verbal shots, with Martinez about as angry about an opponent as any fighter can get.
"It will not be an easy knockout," Martinez said. "I will punish him a lot and after that I will knock him out."
Martinez is a 2-1 favorite in the scheduled 12-round bout, which will be for the WBC title that Martinez held before being stripped of it by the ratings organization. Chavez ended up fighting for the vacated title against Sebastian Zbik, part of the reason Martinez says he has a lot of animosity toward him.
"It is very simple. I cannot accept the fact he is world champion," Martinez said. "The only reason he is world champion is because he is Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., the son of the legend, and his mouth is so big — even bigger than his own brain — and he's talking too much."
The fight is part of a big boxing night in this gambling city that also features Mexican sensation Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in a 154-pound title defense against Josesito Lopez a few blocks away at the MGM Grand hotel. The Chavez-Martinez fight will be broadcast on HBO pay-per-view at a suggested price of $49.95, while the Alvarez fight will be broadcast without an extra charge on Showtime.
Chavez, who has struggled in recent fights trying to make the 160-pound limit, was a surprisingly light 158 pounds at the official weigh-in Friday. Martinez came in at 159 pounds.
Aside from their obvious dislike for each other, the fight between Chavez and Martinez offers some other good storylines.
Martinez is a late bloomer, a 37-year-old Argentine who in recent years has fought his way to the top of the middleweight division. He's a lefty with a style that's hard to counter, though his chin his questionable and he has been on the canvas in some of his fights.
Chavez is taller and figures to outweigh Martinez on fight night after struggling to make the 160-pound weight limit. He's a big puncher who has come into his own in the last couple of years after being brought along very slowly by matchmakers who liked his determination but weren't sure he had the skills to become a top fighter.
Now he brings an unbeaten record of 46-0-1 into the fight and has become such an attraction to Mexican fans that the fight sold out nearly a week early.
"In the last two years he's demonstrated to everyone he's capable," Arum said. "There's a lot of big things ahead if Julio is successful in this fight. We think he'll become one of the biggest attractions in boxing, on the level of a (Manny) Pacquiao or (Floyd) Mayweather."
Chavez is coming off perhaps his best performance, stopping a tough Andy Lee in the seventh round June 16 to defend his title. Chavez trailed early in that fight but came on strong and dominated Lee physically before finally stopping him.
"He hadn't had a lot of experience with southpaws and he fought that fight great," trainer Freddie Roach said. "After that fight we knew it was time to step up. We knew Martinez was a southpaw. We know how to fight a southpaw now and his father and I have been coming up with a game plan."
Part of that game plan was getting Chavez to the gym, something that proved difficult as documented in the HBO "24/7" prefight series. Roach was left waiting at the gym several times, but says Chavez eventually put in enough work to get him in shape for Martinez.
"I had to wait in the gym for him a few times, but for a world champion I will wait," Roach said.
Chavez is guaranteed $3 million for the fight, while Martinez is getting $1.4 million plus a portion of the pay-per-view. The payout reflects the popularity of Chavez, though Martinez wanted the fight so badly he said he is not troubled by being paid less money than his relatively unproven opponent.
"Chavez will get more money," he said, "but he's going to get more of a beating, too."


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At the class, Francine and Andrew started by demonstrating Whipped Eggplant and Anchovy Crostini which was a smooth and light puree of grilled eggplant drizzled with olive oil and topped with an anchovy fillet. The next course was a fresh mix of cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and corn in a red rice salad, and I learned that a type of red rice grows in Italy. The Sauteed Squid with Salsa Verde dish is usually made with lovage, parsley, and mint. Since lovage wasn't available here, celery leaves were used as a substitute. The pasta dish of the evening was light and herby with chopped parsley, basil, and mint stirred into the melted ricotta than sauced the strands of spaghetti. Dessert was a rich and fragrant Vanilla Panna Cotta. Photos from the class are posted on my Facebook page.
With a nice, plump eggplant that had just arrived from my CSA, I decided my first stop in the book would be at the Fried Eggplant with Parmigiano-Reggiano, Tomato, and Basil dish. Yes, it's fried, but with the oil at the proper temperature and the breading properly applied, the eggplant slices become crispy and golden without absorbing the oil. And, unlike a mozzarella-filled, traditional eggplant parmesan dish, this is light by comparison. The eggplant slices were sprinkled with salt and left to drain in a colander for an hour before being patted dry, dusted with flour, dipped in egg, and coated with breadcrumbs. They were fried in 375 degree F oil for a few minutes and then drained on paper towels and seasoned with salt. I took a small liberty with the sauce. Rather than peeling and dicing large tomatoes, I used pretty, little cherry tomatoes which were cooked in olive oil with garlic. I pulsed the cooked tomatoes in the food processor to make a slightly chunky sauce. The sauce was spooned onto plates and sprinkled with torn basil and shaved parmigiano. It was topped with slices of fried eggplant and more basil and parmigiano. It was a dish of simplicity at its very best like everything else in the book promises to be.


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- Sunday at noon there is an XO BRNch in the BRONX to discuss OLPC NYC and updates from Africa. All are welcome, but rsvp to Mago and Holt so they can be ready with appropriate quantities of delicious food. Lidet Tilahun will be joining by phone to share news from OLPC in Ethiopia. (mail : holt at laptop dot org)
- To whet your appetite, Saturday afternoon Montevideo and CeibalJAM are hosting a miniJam for artists, from 14:00 to 20:00. Christoph Derndorfer will be reporting live.
- And Saturday is the first Drumbeat Boston event, celebrating projects supporting the Open Web, including OLPC.


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In a new post to his site Mattias Noback makes a case for clones (in response to this post from Phil Sturgeon). In it he defends the creation of "clones" of tools, either slightly different version of pre-existing PHP packages or the functionality from a package in another language.
There is this ongoing discussion in the PHP community (and I guess in every software-related community) about reinventing wheels. A refreshing angle in this debate came from an article by Phil Sturgeon pointing to the high number of "duplicate" packages available on Packagist. I agree with Phil. [...] It doesn't make sense to do the same thing over and over again. At least I personally don't try to make this mistake. If I want to write code that "already exists", at least I don't publish it on Packagist. However, recently I got myself into the business of "recreating stuff" myself.
He talks some about one of his own projects (SumpleBus) and how, despite it possibly being a clone of other packages, it has slightly different goals than other tools, making it a different tool, not just a straight up clone. He also covers some of the package design principles he suggests in his book and how they can help to make an isolated package better. He also points out how recent PHP-FIG efforts to define common interfaces and structures can help reduce this kind of package duplication as well by reducing the possible implementations of any given process.


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For entrepreneurs, it's not always easy to know if and when they should sell their company.
But it's "one of the biggest questions you can be posed as an entrepreneur," Twitter co-founder Ev Williams recently wrote on Medium.
In 2008, Williams wrote an email to Twitter's board of directors highlighting reasons to sell a company.
Here are the three reasons to sell, according to Williams:
- "The offer captures the upside." So if the offer is greater than the potential value of your company, you should sell.
- Threats, risks, or increased competition. For example, shortly before Google bought YouTube, the video-sharing site was going through some legal issues with content owners. Bringing Google on board helped YouTube address those threats to its business.
- If you're simply over the company, want to move on to a new project, or believe the acquiring company will bring your startup to its fullest potential, you should sell.
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How to organise that World Cup pub crawl
Handy app for catching matches
Looking for a pub to watch the World Cup while drinking beer with your mates?
Plan your pub crawl Footy Pubs 2010 is the latest Nokia and iPhone app to show you where to go. Open the app and get your directions to local pubs showing games.
Find a place to surveil a game
Developed by Drinksin, the app works anywhere in the UK, delivering up to date information on matches and even promotions that individual pubs are running.
Almost like a GPS for boozing football fans (it won't help find the way home), the tool features a huge database of pubs, with all the major names involved and independent pubs growing at a fast rate. ®


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Since efforts to prevent the reopening of an Upper East Side waste transfer system have been squashed, some activists have decided that covering it up is the next best thing.
Modeled after the High Line, the proposed plan involves building a park on top of the covered ramp transporting trash vehicles, as well as the roof of the waste station itself, according to the Daily News.
Andy Nussbaum, president of the board that oversees nearby Asphalt Green recreational facilities, explained to the Daily News, "Instead of seeing a 10-story ugly gray building, people would see a lovely park and outdoor space that can be used by anybody in the community."
The decision to open the $250 million waste transfer system at East 91st street–proposed by ex-Mayor Bloomberg and inherited by Mayor Bill de Blasio–is based on a plan to make all five boroughs responsible for their own trash.
Eddie Bautista, the director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance told the Observer, "Not only will it take the burden off other disposal stations in Queens and Brooklyn, but it is also part of the 2006 Solid Waste Management Plan, which will reduce garbage truck traveling by 5.5 million miles per year within city limits, according to the Department of Sanitation. This will help improve the air quality over the entire region."
Unfortunately, environmental groups like Pledge 2 Protect have vehemently opposed the project due to health and safety concerns. The entrance ramp to the plant will cut through a playground that is part of Asphalt Green, used by 31,000+ children a year, which raises air and noise pollution issues.
Kelly Nimmo-Geunther, president of Pledge 2 Protect, says her organization remains steadfast in its views against any version of the waste transfer station. "While the park-oriented concept remains a worthwhile idea, the larger issue is that the city needs a new solid waste management plan, which protects all people regardless of where they live, income or the color of their skin."


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In historically male-dominated fields, women are rising to the challenge.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
This week, we celebrate the rise of women – "Of the computer science majors graduating in 2013 from Harvard, women make up 41%. And although only 25% of science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) jobs are currently held by women, the numbers are beginning to shift. Between January of 2011 and 2012, the number of women in the IT field jumped by more than 28%," boasts MBA Online.
In historically male-dominated fields, women are rising to the challenge.
See the full infographic below:
Women 2.0 readers: What's your *favorite* part of the women in tech infographic by MBA Online? Let us know in the comments!
About the writer: Angie Chang is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Women 2.0, a media company offering content, community and conferences for aspiring and current women innovators in technology. Our mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Previously, Angie held roles in product management and web UI design. Angie holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Follow her on Twitter at @thisgirlangie.


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Biz(941), a Sarasota Magazine, wrote about Geoff Robinson, founder of Digital Earth Network, in its 2013 People to Watch feature. Robinson, whose company offers business intelligence, software development and video production to natural products businesses, was selected from among 228 nominees.
Bill Frisher is now the director of purchasing and merchandising at Tunie's of Coral Springs, FL. He comes to Tunie's from The Vitamin Shoppe.
Gaiam TV of Boulder, CO, is debuting a new show called, "Is What You Are Eating, Eating You?" featuring Jeffrey Smith, executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. The show will focus on GMOs and other issues.
Rashid Umar Jan, Ph.D., joined Sabinsa Europe GmbH, based in Langen, Germany, as technical sales manager, Europe.
Dallas, TX-based Essential Formulas Incorporated (EFI) welcomed Claire Goodson as its new assistant director of education.
NeoCell of Irvine, CA, hired Shannon Hirtzel to be its new marketing manager.
Health journalist and health freedom advocate James Gormley was selected to receive the 2014 "Excellence in Health Journalism Award" by Emord & Associates' 20th Anniversary Celebration Awards Committee.
Hauppauge, NY-based Bio-Botanica Inc. appointed Christina Goetjen to be its director of new business development for food, beverage and flavor divisions.
James Moss is now the vice president of sales for GoodBelly of Boulder, CO.
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Researchers identified thousands of genetic sequences that may help shape each person's unique face, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The findings may explain how facial differences develop and lead to a new understanding of how facial birth defects arise.
Inherited genes are known to play a role in shaping a person's face. Yet even family members have many subtle differences between them. Scientists have previously identified genes involved in birth defects such as cleft lips and palates. However, the factors responsible for normal, subtle facial differences are still largely unknown.
Genetic enhancers are short DNA sequences that control the activity levels of genes. These sequences are essentially docking sites for proteins that "enhance" the expression of their target genes through various mechanisms. Multiple enhancers can regulate the same gene from different locations on the genome. Variations in any of a gene's enhancers can affect the gene's activity level.
In previous work, Dr. Axel Visel of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and colleagues identified hundreds of enhancers that orchestrate gene expression during heart and brain development in embryos. In this study, Visel led a team to explore whether similar enhancers play a role in the development of facial features. Their work was funded in part by NIH's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), and National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The results were published in Science on October 25, 2013.
First, the researchers searched for gene enhancers active in the facial tissue of mouse embryos at the time of face development. They identified candidate enhancers by finding regions of facial tissue DNA that were bound by enhancer-binding proteins. The team found more than 4,000 candidate enhancer sequences across the mouse genome.
The scientists selected 200 enhancers for further characterization. For each, they engineered mouse embryos to show a distinct color in facial areas where the enhancer was active. Images of the developing faces showed that different enhancers affected different facial regions. For example, one enhancer was active in the areas on either side of the nose, whereas another was active near the upper lip and nose. Most of these characterized sequences are also found in the human genome.
The researchers directly tested whether 3 of the enhancers affected the shape of the facial regions where they were active. They deleted the enhancers and then compared precise skull measurements of the mice to those of normal mice. None of the deletions caused obvious deformities. Two of the deletions were associated with subtle but significant changes in the facial regions where the enhancer was previously shown to be active.
"Knowing about the existence of these enhancers, which are inherited from parents to their children just like genes, knowing their exact location in the human genome, and knowing their general activity pattern in craniofacial development should facilitate a better understanding of the connection between genetics and human craniofacial morphology," Visel says.
The team is now working with human geneticists to explore whether mutations of human enhancer sequences similar to those found in the mouse genome are linked to facial birth defects in people.
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Another interesting pick by the "Ol Man". I really cant say much about this type of item I'm lucky I can even turn the computer on! He is pretty proud of this and has been asking me to post it so now I have. Anyone know how hard or expensive it would be to get a license to broadcast?


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Every year, Samsung's flagship Galaxy S line has crept up in size, and this year's Galaxy S III continues the trend with a 4.8-inch display. Not counting the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, which is more of a phone-tablet hybrid, the Galaxy S III is Samsung's biggest phone yet.
But why does the crown jewel of Samsung's smartphone line keep getting bigger? The company says it's just giving people what they want.
(MORE: The Samsung Galaxy S III: One Huge Display and a Whole Lot of Software)
"People like bigger," Philip Berne, Samsung's technical media marketing manager said during a meeting at the CTIA Wireless trade show this week. "We asked them, and they tell us they like big."
It's hard to argue with that. Earlier this week, I asked John Young, an AT&T spokesman, why the carrier's phones keep growing in size. (AT&T launched the HTC One X, with a 4.7-inch display, earlier this week.) Simple, he said: They sell. Young noted that Samsung's Infuse 4G, which has a 4.5-inch display, was a big seller on AT&T last year, even though at the time it was larger than most other phones on the market. Now, the Infuse just seems normal compared to other handsets.
I tried to make my case to Samsung's Berne anyway: Although larger screens are nice to look at–indeed the Galaxy S III's screen looks gorgeous–they're tricky to use with one hand, because you must constantly re-position the phone to reach the top edge of the screen and the buttons on the bottom.
Berne countered that Samsung offers a wide range of phone sizes, such as the 4-inch Galaxy S Blaze and the new Samsung Focus 2 Windows Phone. For now, however, users will have to go big if they want the Galaxy III's other features, such as a 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos processor, a Siri-like "S-Voice" virtual assistant and a zero-lag camera that can snap a quick succession of shots and automatically choose the best one. Those features will likely trickle down to other Samsung phones with time.
At the moment, Berne said, Samsung isn't planning to build any phones with 720p resolution displays smaller than 4.65 inches–the size of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus. Ryan Biden, Samsung's director of product marketing, said there are technical constraints that prevent the company from making smaller 720p phones anyway.
I suspect that phone makers want the 720p bullet point on their marketing checklists, and it's easier and cheaper to pack more pixels into a larger display. If technical constraints are at work, I assume we're at the upper bound of how large 720p smartphones will be, but Samsung wouldn't say if it'll keep pushing the envelope.
In my brief hands-on with the Galaxy S III, I found it to be as smooth as any other high-end handset running Android 4.0, but I didn't have enough time to draw conclusions about the phone's software features. I'm still not sure whether S-Voice and Smart Stay, which keeps the screen turned on as long the front-facing camera see your eyes looking down, are actually useful or just neat gimmicks. Samsung's camera improvements, including a burst shot mode and high dynamic range imaging, do seem beneficial, at least.
In any case, Samsung is turning to these software features to stand out from other Android phones–a move that will likely become a trend among phone makers. Hardware is reaching a point of diminishing returns, so the baseline Android experience is now so fluid and feature-rich that it's getting harder to tell individual phones apart.
Samsung plans to launch the Galaxy S III in Europe at the end of May. It's coming to the United States this summer, but so far no U.S. carriers have said whether they'll offer it.


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HPI Racing is proud to introduce a 200mm clear body shell replica of the legendary 1966 Ford Mustang GT Coupe! The Mustang is one of the most famous early American Trans-Am cars, and a huge following in drag racing circles as Ford produced a car that could do it all, making the Mustang an American cult classic! Our true-to-life 1/10th scale replica captures all of the details that make the 1966 Mustang GT Coupe a fan favorite. This HPI-factory body is designed to fit perfectly on 200mm touring cars. Add your own paint job and you"re ready to race, cruise or sit in the garage ready for concours.
- Photorealistic die-cut premium vinyl decals include window frames, headlight, grille, taillights and more, plus logos!
- Shiny chrome vinyl decals for the ultimate in realism
- Overspray film and pre-cut vinyl window masks make painting fast and simple
- A decal instruction sheet is included for decal placement
- The body has dimple marks for body post drill locations
- Molded from strong clear polycarbonate plastic for durability and long life.


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For over a decade, Killer Mike has made a living with a mixture of a booming delivery, social consciousness, and Southern sensibility. Meanwhile, El-P has remained a fixture in the independent scene, while wearing many hats (emcee, producer, label head). What unites this unlikely pair is an aggressive, calculating, take-no-prisoner approach to Hip Hop, which is materialized in their group album, R.A.P. Music.
"Big Beast" is a Molotov cocktail to the face, and fittingly serves as the album's intro. Though the posse cut has been floating around the internet for quite some time, Killer Mike's devastating presence makes every listen feel like the first. "Welcome to Atlanta—up your jewelry, motherfucka! / These monkey niggas looking for some Luda and Jermaine / And all a nigga found was a Ruger and some pain!" snarls Mike Bigga, who channels some awesome combination of Ice Cube and M.O.P. to Bun B and T.I. don't slouch on the cut either, dropping some of their most menacing bars in some time. There's not a line wasted or not worth quoting, and El-P's stabbing synths perfectly punctuate each emcee's rhymes.
A shining example of the breadth and effectiveness of Mike's rhetoric is found in the outro on "Untitled": "I don't trust the church or the government / Democrat, republicans, Pope or a bishop, or them other men / And I believe God has sustained me with rap / So I take a burning bush, put it in a Swisher wrap / And they can't kill a G, I seen how I die / I'm only going once, a coward dies a thousand times / And till that chariot come and take a nigga home / I'ma spit this ghetto gospel over all these gutter songs / I'm gone." Despite the fact that he touches on matters such as politics and religion—and perhaps takes controversial stances on them—Mike is instantly relatable; anyone who's ever felt the sting of empty promises from hollow leadership can see themselves uttering Mike's words.
As much credit as Mike deserves for R.A.P. Music's consistent excellence, El-P deserves the same. The production on the album is as hardcore as anything El Producto has ever done, but simultaneously much more accessible. Further, he and Mike are in perfect concert. Whether it's accenting Mike's "pows!" in "Big Beast," or dropping a beat to make a line hit the listener with extra gravitas, El-P knows exactly how to optimize the intended aesthetic of every track. Check the southern funk on "Southern Fried," or the minimalist approach on "Jojo's Chillin,'" which allows Mike to take the forefront as he flexes his storytelling muscle. Perhaps the prime example of the duo's chemistry is "Reagan," which evolves in its intensity while Mike drops sociopolitical commentary. It appears that, like Ice Cube with the Bomb Squad, Killer Mike has found his production ace in the hole. As was the case with Cube, Mike's new production partner doesn't have him abandoning his sound; rather, El-P enhances it.
There's no doubt—R.A.P. Music is the best Southern Rap album since Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Further, R.A.P. contains someone of the most thoughtful, well-executed commentary (both in style and substance) found in music since the days of Rage Against the Machine. Throughout his career, Mike has steadily carved out an NWA-esque balance between lyrics that stick to your ribs and lyrics that smack you in the face. With El-P as its catalyst, R.A.P. Music puts Mike on display has he doles out unheard levels of indignation, fury, and passion.


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Using advanced imaging to visualize brain areas used for understanding language in native Japanese speakers, a new study from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute finds that the pitch-accent in words pronounced in standard Japanese activates different brain hemispheres depending on whether the listener speaks standard Japanese or one of the regional dialects.
In the study published in the journal Brain and Language, Drs. Yutaka Sato, Reiko Mazuka and their colleagues examined if speakers of a non-standard dialect used the same brain areas while listening to spoken words as native speakers of the standard dialect or as someone who acquired a second language later in life.
When we hear language our brain dissects the sounds to extract meaning. However, two people who speak the same language may have trouble understanding each other due to regional accents, such as Australian and American English. In some languages, such as Japanese, these regional differences are more pronounced than an accent and are called dialects.
Unlike different languages that may have major differences in grammar and vocabulary, the dialects of a language usually differ at the level of sounds and pronunciation. In Japan, in addition to the standard Japanese dialect, which uses a pitch-accent to distinguish identical words with different meanings, there are other regional dialects that do not.
Similar to the way that a stress in an English word can change its meaning, such as "pro'duce" and "produ'ce", identical words in the standard Japanese language have different meanings depending on the pitch-accent. The syllables of a word can have either a high or a low pitch and the combination of pitch-accents for a particular word imparts it with different meanings.
The experimental task was designed to test the participants' responses when they distinguish three types of word pairs: (1) words such as /ame'/ (candy) versus /kame/ (jar) that differ in one sound, (2) words such as /ame'/ (candy) versus /a'me/ (rain) that differ in their pitch accent, and (3) words such as 'ame' (candy in declarative intonation) and /ame?/ (candy in a question intonation).
RIKEN neuroscientists used Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to examine whether the two brain hemispheres are activated differently in response to pitch changes embedded in a pair of words in standard and accent-less dialect speakers. This non-invasive way to visualize brain activity is based on the fact that when a brain area is active, blood supply increases locally in that area and this increase can be detected with an infrared laser.
It is known that pitch changes activate both hemispheres, whereas word meaning is preferentially associated with the left-hemisphere. When the participants heard the word pair that differed in pitch-accent, /ame'/ (candy) vs /a'me/ (rain), the left hemisphere was predominantly activated in standard dialect speakers, whereas in accent-less dialect speakers did not show the left-dominant activation. Thus, standard Japanese speakers use the pitch-accent to understand the word meaning. However, accent-less dialect speakers process pitch changes similar to individuals who learn a second language later in life.
The results are surprising because both groups are native Japanese speakers who are familiar with the standard dialect. "Our study reveals that an individual's language experience at a young age can shape the way languages are processed in the brain," comments Dr. Sato. "Sufficient exposure to a language at a young age may change the processing of a second language so that it is the same as that of the native language."
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Contact: Juliette Savin – RIKEN
Source: RIKEN press release
Image Source: The image is credited to RIKEN and is adapted from the press release.
Original Research: Abstract for "Dialectal differences in hemispheric specialization for Japanese lexical pitch accent" by Sato, Y., Utsugi, A., Yamane, N., Koizumi, M., and Mazuka, R. in Brain and Language. Published online October 16 2013 doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.09.008